Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 07:42:33 +0000 From: Ben Paley <ben@spooty.net> To: chris@monochrome.org Cc: saul.hood@gmail.com, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: What's that filesystem for a usb flash drive? Message-ID: <200603270742.33954.ben@spooty.net> In-Reply-To: <20060326034002.CBD0716A445@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20060326034002.CBD0716A445@hub.freebsd.org>
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> On Sat, 25 Mar 2006, Saul Mena Avila wrote: > > Hello!. I've been trying to mount my flash memory but it just doesn't > > let me. > > I use (as root): > > > > mount -t msdosfs /dev/ad0 /flash try 'msdos' instead of 'msdosfs' > Are you sure that /dev/ad0 is actually your flash device? That doesn't > look right to me. What is the physical interface to your flash memory? > That is, is it USB, a PCMCIA card, or what? My usb flash drives always show up as da devices, not ad. Have a look in /dev to see what nodes are actually there, and especially look at tty0 when you plug the drive in - you should get an informative console message and perhaps find its da1 or da2 even (depending on what other usb devices are attached, I think). Also you may need to mount a slice, like da0s1, as I do. In summary, the command which works for me is: # mount -t msdos /dev/da0s1 /flash Good luck, Ben
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